▲ 288 ▼ TIL there is no agreement on how many continents there are. (en.wikipedia.org) submitted 4 months ago by Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.world 131 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 38 points 4 months ago (3 children) There's one continent, it's called the crust of the Earth. There's some water on top of it in some places. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago This comment has been flagged as DEI /s permalink fedilink source parent [–] Jarix@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago* (2 children) Continental crusts are an observable and measurable thing They contain higher concentrations of aluminum whereas you find higher concentrations of magnesium outside of those crusts. They are geological features and should be categorized accordingly. Eurasia makes way more sense than Europe being its own special thing... Except Europe, historically, likes to pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist in their concepts and as such always considers itself special permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago Oceanic crusts are also much denser than continental crusts, and obviously not as thick. When they collide the oceanic crusts subduct back into the mantle due to being denser. permalink fedilink source parent [–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 point 4 months ago Seems like stamp collecting to me permalink fedilink source parent [–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (1 child) The oceans are just a big lake. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago The big salty lake I call it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago This comment has been flagged as DEI /s permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago* (2 children) Continental crusts are an observable and measurable thing They contain higher concentrations of aluminum whereas you find higher concentrations of magnesium outside of those crusts. They are geological features and should be categorized accordingly. Eurasia makes way more sense than Europe being its own special thing... Except Europe, historically, likes to pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist in their concepts and as such always considers itself special permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago Oceanic crusts are also much denser than continental crusts, and obviously not as thick. When they collide the oceanic crusts subduct back into the mantle due to being denser. permalink fedilink source parent [–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 point 4 months ago Seems like stamp collecting to me permalink fedilink source parent
[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago Oceanic crusts are also much denser than continental crusts, and obviously not as thick. When they collide the oceanic crusts subduct back into the mantle due to being denser. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 point 4 months ago Seems like stamp collecting to me permalink fedilink source parent
[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (1 child) The oceans are just a big lake. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago The big salty lake I call it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago The big salty lake I call it. permalink fedilink source parent